378 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-^QU. Lapsana. 



long, angular, furrowed, smooth. Down none. Recept. 

 naked, flat, narrow. 

 Herbs various in habit, more oi* less milk}'^, with or without 

 a leafy stem. Leaves toothed, or pinnatifid. Fl. small, 

 yellow. 



1. L. commu7iis. Common Nipple-wort. 



Calyx of the fruit angular. Stem branched, panicled, leafy. 

 Leaves ovate, stalked, toothed. Flower-stalks cylindri- 

 cal, even. 



L. communis. Linn. Sp. PL 1 141. Willd.v. 3. 1624. Fl. Br, 842. 



Engl. Bot. V. 12. /. 844. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1. t. 59. Hook. Scot. 



234. Fl. Dan. t. 500. 

 L. n. 6. Hall. Hist. V. 1.4. 

 Lampsana. Rail Syn. 173. Ger. Em. 255./. Dad. Pempt. 675./. 



Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 1 028,/. Lob. Ic. 207./. Dalech. Hist. 54 1 ./. 2. 

 Nipple-wort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 14./. 12. 



In waste as well as cultivated ground, frequent. 



Annual. June, July. 



Root branching, with many fibres ; simple at the crown. Herb 

 deep greenj a little hairy. Stem solitary, 2 or 3 feet high, erect, 

 round, branched, leafy, almost solid, nearly or quite smooth, 

 ieat^es pliant and thin, somewhat hairy j radical ones lyrate j 

 ripper alternate, stalked, ovate, acute, toothed. Panicle re- 

 peatedly divided, erect. Flower-stalks round, naked, smooth, 

 of equal thickness throughout, with a linear-lanceolate, pointed 

 bractea at the base of each. Fl. very small, bright yellow. Cal. 

 smooth, hardened when closed about the seeds, which are few, 

 angular, without any down, or crown of any kind. 



The English name alludes to an old idea of the herb curing sore 

 breasts, for which Camerarius reports that it has been used in 

 Prussia. 



2. L, pusilla. Dwarf Nipple-wort. Swine's Succory. 



Stalks radical, leafless, subdivided; swelHng and tubular at 

 the summit. Leaves obovate, rough-edged, toothed. 



L. pusilla. Willd.Sp.Pl.v.Z.\%2Z. Comp. ed. 4. 133. Hook. Lond. 



^65. 

 L. minima. Hook. Scot. 234. 

 L. n. 4. Hall. Hist. V. 1.4. 

 Hyoseris minima, Linn. Sp. PI. \\3S. Hiids. 3-i6. Fl.Br.839. 



Engl. Bot. V. 2. t. 95. Fl. Dan. t.20l. Ehrh. Herb. 30. 

 H. mascula. Ger. Em. 288./ 

 Arnoseris pusilla. Gcertn. v. 2. 355. t. 157./ 3. 

 Hieracium minimum Clusii, Hyoseris Taberneemontani et Gerardi. 



Raii Syn. 173. 



